Wasco-Hood River-Yamhill County OR Archives Obituaries.....McConn, Donald Darrell "Don" May 28, 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com April 8, 2006, 12:17 pm The Dalles Chronicle, June 2, 2005 Donald Darrell “Don” McConn, 82, a resident of Walla Walla, died in a Spokane care facility May 28 after suffering a stroke following open heart surgery May 12 in Spokane. He was born April 15, 1923 in Newberg to Frances and Glenn McConn. The family settled in Hood River, where he graduated from Hood River High School in 1941. He served in the U.S. Army and was a volunteer fireman. He married Irene Nelson on April 1, 1945. She died on Dec. 19, 1995. He was the agent for Railway Express in Hood River until the late 1950s when he was transferred to Centralia, Wash., and then to Walla Walla in 1960. In the late 1960s, he went to work for a moving and storage company and retired as manager in 1983. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing and golfing, but his life was fullest when attending family functions and socializing with and helping friends and spending time in recent years with special friend Virginia “Sammy” Reynolds of Milton-Freewater. He was a member of Riverside Church, Elks Club and American Legion in Hood River. A memorial service will be held Friday, June 3, at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Herring Groseclose Funeral Home in Walla Walla, with Rev. Doug Barram officiating. Cremation was held. A graveside service will be held at the Idlewild Cemetery in Hood River. Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association, Sacred Heart Chaplaincy Service or a charity of the donor’s choice through Herring Funeral Home. Additional Comments: Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/wasco/obits/m/mcconn1069gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb